The ASMA 2019 National Exhibition Maritime Museum of Tasmania 15 November 2019 – 22 March 2020 1. John DOWNTON 6. Walter KNOOP Maintaining Her Dignity Madge, 1895 Gaff Cutter Oil Oil H 108 x W 82 cm H 40 x W 50 cm $8,800 $850 A pretty little trader between New Zealand and 40’ ‘plank on edge’ yacht off Battery Point, Hobart. Australia. 7. Walter KNOOP 2. John DOWNTON Britannia off Cowes c1912 A Lady’s Demise (Launceston, Tasmania) Pastel Oil H 65 x W 74 cm H 76 x W 102 cm $1,050 $12,500 The King’s yacht, top performing ‘big’ boat. An old worker lifeline that sailed between Tasmania and King Island and now high and dry 8. Walter KNOOP in the long grass on the river bank. Eleonora in the Med Acrylic 3. John DOWNTON H 45 x W 55 cm Rounding The Corner (Tasmania) $850 Oil Replica of Westward, built 2000. H 76 x W 87 cm $3,300 9. Suzy KING A Sydney to Hobart yacht race contestant. Against the Wind Acrylic 4. Walter KNOOP H 38.5 x W 50 cm Adela, 1908 Schooner $585 Pastel Twilight racing on Wednesdays – Sydney Harbour. H 72 x W 68 cm $1,050 10. Suzy KING Gaff rigged schooner c1908. The Waiting Game Oil 5. Walter KNOOP H42 x W70 cm Weene, near the Iron Pot $1,800 Pastel At sunset, when the wind drops, the tension rises H60 x W 70 cm and everyone sits and waits! The Sydney to Hobart, $950 2018. One designer, from early 1900 – 1912. 1 11. Suzy KING 18. Gerry JENSEN Blackwattle Bay Moored - Strahan Oil Pastel H 104 x W 104 cm H 80x W 99 cm $4,950 $1, 950 One of the last pearling luggers from the Fishing boat moored at Strahan, Tasmania. 1900’s, now the Tribal Warrior in the tranquil waters of Blackwattle Bay in Sydney Harbour. 19. Gerry JENSEN Dry Docked 12. Karen BLOOMFIELD Pastel Scale to a ‘T’ H 99 x W 51 cm Oil on canvas $950 H 76 x W 76 cm These yachts sitting together at a shipyard caught $1,900 my eye as they no longer leave the dry dock. A perspective. 20. Robyn COLEMAN 13. Karen BLOOMFIELD Belles Long Ranger The Sulphur Traders Pastel Oil on canvas H 67 x W 88 cm H 76 x W 76 cm $400 $2,400 Heading right for Hobart at South Head from Colour of industry. Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day 1989 Belles Long Ranger is one of the first all women crew to 14. Karen BLOOMFIELD complete the Sydney to Hobart Race successfully. Transverse My good friend, Jenny Gillott was working the Oil on canvas foredeck hoisting the spinnaker before jibbing it for H 152 x W 76 cm Hobart amongst all the excitement of the spectator craft including her parents’ runabout! $2,800 21. Robyn COLEMAN 15. Karen BLOOMFIELD Boxing Day Sydney Harbour Botany Fireflies Pastel Oil on canvas H 71 x W 85 cm H 152 x W 76 cm $600 $2,800 All of Sydney comes out to join the excitement on The beauty of a port industry. Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour and wish the Sydney to Hobart Race fleet a safe and quick passage to 16. Stan STEFANIAK Hobart! Flying out the heads first is very Moonbi passing Cape Pillar competitive and prestigious for the big maxis such Oil on linen on board as Wild Oats X1, Perpetual Loyal and Black Jack. H 64 x W 76 cm $1,200 22. Robyn COLEMAN Sydney to Hobart entrant Moonbi heading south 50th Anniversary Sydney to Hobart Race near Cape Pillar, 1955. Pastel H 75 x W 95 cm 17. Gerry JENSEN $600 The Race A spectacular spinnaker start to the 50th Acrylic Anniversary Sydney to Hobart Race greeted H 59 x W 104cm Sydneysiders on Boxing Day 1994. A record- $1,500 breaking 372 yachts competed in this race with the Waves breaking over the bow – the magic of the big maxis heading the fleet and the smaller yachts race. including my husband, Anthony Coleman on Tall Cotton, a graceful Frers design Swan 51 owned by Kai Jacobsen. 2 23. Robyn COLEMAN 29. Bill MEARNS Time For A Quiet Little Drink Belle Brandon Earth Pastel Watercolour H 76 x W 95 cm H 51.5 x W 69 cm $800 $1,800 In the wonderful tradition of the 75 year Sydney to Belle was built in Hobart 1881 and survived until Hobart Race the yachts are moored in Constitution 2009. Dock, Hobart on December 31st. They’ve completed the race, they’re safe at mooring. The excitement of 30. Greg WARDLE the competition is over and they’re drying out their Mast Reflections sails! It’s time for “a quiet little drink,” as the saying Acrylic on canvas goes! H 50 x W 100 cm $1,650 24. Robyn COLEMAN Love and War 31. Greg WARDLE Earth Pastel Fish’N’Trips H 60 x W 90 cm Acrylic on canvas $600 H 101 x W 75 cm Quietly moored at the marina at Constitution Dock $1,650 in Hobart on 31 Dec 2013 after completing her 40th Sydney to Hobart Race this 41-year-old beautiful classic oregon and maple Love and War understates 32. Greg WARDLE her race record of being one of the only two boats Before the Storm in the 75year history of the race to win it three Acrylic on canvas times on handicap. H 76 x W 101 cm $1,650 25. Bill MEARNS Mistral II 33. Don BRABEN Watercolour Off Duty – Beauty Point H 72 x W 89 cm Oil $3,000 (All proceeds to restoration of Mistral) H 61 x W 61 cm $750 26. Bill MEARNS Pilot cutter and tug at Beauty Point Wharf. Rani Watercolour 34. Anne LE FEVRE H 72.5 x W 95.5 cm The Defender at Hobart Docks $2,500 Acrylic Rani was the winner – Sydney to Hobart Race No. 1. H 64 x W 81 cm $700 27. Bill MEARNS I photographed this at ‘Tall Ships’ event in Hobart. The ALMA Doepel Watercolour 35. Anne LE FEVRE H 66 x W 72.5 cm The Cartela Underway $2,000 Acrylic Tops’l schooner – built 1903. H 61 x W 76 cm $800 28. Bill MEARNS The Cartela is currently at Franklin in Tasmania – Casilda waiting to be restored. Watercolour H 52.5 x W 84.5 cm $2,000 Tasmanian (ex-fishing yawl) Casilda. 3 36. Chris HILL 43. Jane BENNETT Sunday, IRB Championships Spirit of Tasmania III in Captain Cook dry dock Oil on board Garden Island H 38 x W 37 cm Oil on canvas $460 H 20 x W 25 cm Freezing midwinter National Championship at $500 Thirroul 2018. Painted plein air from the bottom of the dry dock at Garden Island in 2013. 37. Chris HILL Sawmill 44. Jane BENNETT Oil on board Raising the visor of Spirit of Tasmania III H 33 x W 42.5 cm Oil on canvas $460 H 25 x W 20 cm At the Wooden Boat Show 2019. $500 Painted plein air during the last departure of Spirit 38. Jennifer PULLMAN of Tasmania III from Sydney in October 2006. Winter Repairs Acrylic on canvas 45. Jane BENNETT H 40 x W 50 cm Spirit of Tasmania III – Linesman with rope $800 Oil on canvas H 20 x W 25 cm 39. Jennifer PULLMAN $500 Regatta Painted plein air during one of the last voyages Oil on canvas departing from Sydney in 2006. I was artist in H 24 x W 29 cm residence for Sydney Ports at the time. $490 46. Jane BENNETT 40. Jennifer PULLMAN Spirit of Tasmania III – Linesman dragging Club Race rope Oil on canvas Oil on canvas H 24 x W 29 cm H 20 x W 25 cm $490 $500 Painted plein air during one of the last departures 41. Jennifer PULLMAN of Spirit of Tasmania III from Sydney while I was ‘Artist in Residence’ for Sydney Ports. The Race Oil on canvas 47. Jane BENNETT H 24 x W 24 cm Bike entering ramp of Spirit of Tasmania III $490 (diptych) Crew hauling home the main t’gallant sheet as she Oil on canvas dips the lee rail. H 20 x W 51 cm 42. Bruno WEIN $1,100 Hobart 2004 Yacht Race II Painted plein air during one of the last departures of Spirit of Tasmania III from Sydney while I was Watercolour artist in residence for Sydney Ports. H 32 x W 32 cm $550 Tense race with rivals close by – still time for reflection. 4 48. Penelope HILLAM 54. Hugh CROSS After the 1998 Storm The sailor’s life - James Craig making towards Print on canvas Hobart H 46 x W 31 cm Pastel and charcoal $260 H 58 x W 73 cm Painted this year in relation to the tragic Sydney to $750 Hobart in 1998. We stood on the wharf of Crew hauling on a clew-line as a sea comes over the Constitution Dock for the six men who died. I was windward rail. greatly affected by the contrast from the raging storm to the calmness of the waters in the 55. Stan STEFANIAK protected dock. I have never been back and this Up to the Challenge exhibition has made me face the tragedy. This Oil on linen on board painting links the manmade structures and boats to H 42 x W 51 cm the water through the reflections.